For those that are interested, I also recently purchased the Toshiba Satellite 2435-s255 laptop. Awesome laptop for the money I spent. And, I purchased the laptop knowing full well I'd have problems installing RH 8.0 on it. However, after MANY attempts at installing RH 7.1, 7.3, and 8.0--and Debian 3.0--I've come to learn RH's latest beta, RH 8.0.94 Phoebe, installs on this machine without a problem. It even recognized all of the hardware, except the monitor--had to enter info manually. Obviously RH changed the default kernel in the distro to include support for acpi, as SuSe recently did. Awesome! Laptop's running great! Now I'm happy! Hope this helps! Chris Shanahan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brief History: I recently obtained a Toshiba Satellite 2435-S255 laptop and obviously envisioned RH 8 running on it. Unfortunately, after initializing the installation, the box hangs at the "Booting the Kernel." message (no kernel version banner). I was able to get Red Hat 7.0 (with the 2.2 kernel) running on it and then I even got 2.4.18 to boot. Now, I would like to create a custom set of RH 8 install cds (using another box that is running 8.0) so that I can install psyche and have "restore CDs" for the future. What I have done so far: I was able to figure out that the problem rested in the APIC support included with the 2.4 kernel. By removing this from the config and recompiling, I was able to get a kernel going that should work with 8.0. In order to do this, I am speculating that the vmlinuz kernel included with the default 8.0 install will have to be replaced with a kernel that does not have APIC included. I started researching the install process; Syslinux and Anaconda; and I browsed this mailing list (anaconda-devel-list) in hopes that someone might have posted instructions as to how to create a new vmlinuz / initrd.img or at least what options were used to create the stock one that is shipping with the installation? Incidentally, I already downloaded the beta 8.0.93 and tried that with the same result (hung at "Booting the kernel.") I apologize if this is the wrong list to be posting this to, but it seemed the most reasonable. Thank you for your time and consideration. -Matt Howell mhowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
